Staff Product Security Engineer
Chainguard1 day ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates that detect issues before production.
- Automatically capture and assess the risk exposure of Chainguard products.
- Implement software supply chain security controls including signed artifacts, SBOMs, and provenance attestations using SLSA and Sigstore/Cosign.
- Identify emerging customer security needs and build solutions to address them.
- Lead security architecture reviews and threat modeling for Kubernetes workloads running on GCP and AWS.
- Harden container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM postures.
- Define and drive adoption of pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, and secrets management.
Requirements
- Require 8+ years of software engineering, security engineering, or combined experience with meaningful hands-on security responsibility.
- Require strong proficiency in Go or Python and the ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code.
- Require deep production Kubernetes experience, including cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, and admission controllers.
- Require practical GCP and/or AWS expertise covering IAM, workload identity, secrets management, and security services such as GCP Security Command Center and AWS Security Hub.
- Require experience designing and securing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or Tekton.
- Require fluency with container security, including image scanning, minimal base images, and runtime security.
- Require experience with software supply chain security tooling and frameworks including Sigstore, SLSA, and SBOM generation.
- Require understanding of OWASP, NIST, and cloud security frameworks and their practical application.
- Preferred qualifications include familiarity with Chainguard Images or other hardened container base image ecosystems, policy-as-code tools, open source security contributions, and security research or offensive security experience.
Benefits
- Remote-first work with team meetups, twice-yearly destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and a 10-year exercise period.
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
- Flexible paid time off.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, usable at once or throughout the child’s first year.
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About Chainguard
Chainguard provides secure, hardened container images and production-ready builds of open source software for enterprises and developers, typically sold via subscriptions and support. Its offerings include Chainguard Images and tools for software supply chain security; the company also maintains Wolfi, a container-focused Linux distribution. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Kirkland, WA, Chainguard’s customers include organizations such as OpenAI, Snowflake, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.